Moraga
/məˈɹɑɡə/
"moraga" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Moraga” is uncommon English (frequency #97,327 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,327
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Contra Costa County, California, United States, known as a college town.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moraga · Moraga · English
Moraga · rank #97,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,327
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Moneypenny
Nearest frequency peer: Moneypenny (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Moraga”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Moneypenny
Moneypenny
2,675 corpus weight
- Moraga
Moraga
2,674 corpus weight
- Morlock
Morlock
2,673 corpus weight
- Mrazek
Mrazek
2,672 corpus weight
- Mulhall
Mulhall
2,670 corpus weight
- murderess
murderess
2,669 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Moraga” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Moraga |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /məˈɹɑɡə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Moraga” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Moraga is uncommon English at frequency #97,327 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /məˈɹɑɡə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Contra Costa County, California, United States, known as a college town.".
Moraga has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Moraga, spelled M-O-R-A-G-A.
Definition
- 1A town in Contra Costa County, California, United States, known as a college town.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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